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Favorite Christmas story

hossoso

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Bilblical, Fiction or Non. Mine is the Christmas Eve truce between German and British trench fighters in 1914. From what I understand of Christmas, that example is probably the most unadulterated expression I can think of. Putting down guns to walk across a No Man's Land (littered with bodies and ordnance--bodies they helped each other bury) and exchanging beer, cigarettes and names despite orders to kill on sight.



*I know I'll catch hell for posting a soft-underbelly topic but I'm going to leave it.
 

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The Tailor of Gloucester. No More Twist!
 

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"5 Slain in Christmas Murder/Suicide" Authorities are trying to unravel the motive of a 27-year-old Virginia man who shot his mother on Christmas Day, drove to another up-scale Washington D.C. neighborhood and killed two men, a woman and a dog, before taking his own life.
 

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^haha. yeah, heartwarming.
 

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" Christmas **** Alert in Manchester" Manchester police are concerned about people who drink large quantities of alcohol on a night out in the run up to Christmas and leave themselves vulnerable to crimes such as ****. Between April 1 and October 31, 526 rapes and attempted rapes were reported in Greater Manchester.
 

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"Man assaults father with Christmas tree" They say he then tried to use its steel base to strike him. His father and mother subdued him.
 

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"Family Shot in Christmas Carnage" Six people, likely three generations of a US family, were found dead at a rural property east of Seattle, and a law enforcement official said police arrested the property owner's daughter and her boyfriend.
 

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"Car Plows in to Christmas Parade" An elderly driver hurtled through barricades into a crowd lined up for a Christmas parade Monday and injured several people, some of them members of a Cub Scout troop, a city official and witnesses said.
 

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Originally Posted by Magician
"Family Shot in Christmas Carnage"

Six people, likely three generations of a US family, were found dead at a rural property east of Seattle, and a law enforcement official said police arrested the property owner's daughter and her boyfriend.


That one is literally hitting close to home. What a horrible story. I know your posting to be funny (which is fine) but that situation was seriously fucked up. And, as mentioned before, **** you forever for ruining my Polly-Anna thread (in my defence, the first and last one).
 

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Here's a personal story:

It was my ninth Xmas. My father had just died in October, leaving us rather destitute, and my mother was having a hard time coping. I came into the kitchen to find her crying, about a week before Xmas. She couldn't afford any presents for us and was quite distraught. Just then, a knock on our kitchen door rang out. I opened the door, and peered out into the snowy evening, to find a local dignitary with a large box. It included presents for my little sister and me (the last two kids to live at home), a turkey, a carton of smokes (my mother's present I guess. Odd she always had money for those...), a scarves knitted for us by the church ladies.

True story. Now my sister is a Jesus freak, I don't believe in god, and my mother is almost 30 years older, still smokes, and I pay for things like her new flat screen and cataract surgery, while she tells me I'm stupid for not backing Obama and how much she hates Palin. Ain't life grand?

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Personal stories are good, I'd imagine a little harder to put out there also. Nice story.
 

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this deserves a gift. perhaps a fruitcake.

Originally Posted by Piobaire
Here's a personal story:

It was my ninth Xmas. My father had just died in October, leaving us rather destitute, and my mother was having a hard time coping. I came into the kitchen to find her crying, about a week before Xmas. She couldn't afford any presents for us and was quite distraught. Just then, a knock on our kitchen door rang out. I opened the door, and peered out into the snowy evening, to find a local dignitary with a large box. It included presents for my little sister and me (the last two kids to live at home), a turkey, a carton of smokes (my mother's present I guess. Odd she always had money for those...), a scarves knitted for us by the church ladies.

True story. Now my sister is a Jesus freak, I don't believe in god, and my mother is almost 30 years older, still smokes, and I pay for things like her new flat screen and cataract surgery, while she tells me I'm stupid for not backing Obama and how much she hates Palin. Ain't life grand?

crackup[1].gif
 

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Originally Posted by thekunk07
this deserves a gift. perhaps a fruitcake.

Please consider a gift that includes alcohol.
 

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^ a good fruitcake does. only good xmas gift i ever get from my mother-in-law is a white-iced irish fruitcake soaked in whiskey.
 

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